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THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Magic City”

MAGIC CITY: Friday 9PM on Starz You’d have thought, after the low-rated, little-buzzed first season of MAGIC CITY, that both Starz and series creator Mitch Glazer would have recognized the series needed to return...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Something In the Air” and “Ginger and Rosa”

Toronto this year provided two notable portraits of teenagers growing up in a time of political turmoil, Olivier Assayas’s SOMETHING IN THE AIR and Sally Potter’s GINGER AND ROSA. Assayas’s film is about th...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Downsizing” & “The Shape of Water”

DOWNSIZING (Paramount – Dec 22): Alexander Payne’s latest film (written with his usual partner Jim Taylor) is a delight–and a bit of a mess. On its face, Downsizing is a leap out of Payne and Taylor...

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THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Mad Men”

MAD MEN: Sunday 10PM on AMC And still–there’s MAD MEN. Even in an era of unparalleled TV drama, nothing else on the air is quite like Matthew Weiner’s masterwork, a TV series that simply isn’t...

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TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL Day 5 Capsule Reviews: “Jackie,” “Arrival,” “Loving,” “Blue Jay,” & “Black Mirror”

JACKIE (Fox Searchlight – December 9): The most impressive film of the festival thus far is director Pablo Larrain’s jewel-like examination of the realities and artifices behind our perceptions of history, ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Breathe” & “3 Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

BREATHE (Bleecker Street – Oct 13): BREATHE wasn’t the favored Triumph of the Human Spirit drama at Toronto this year; that title went to Stronger, with Jake Gyllanhaal as a survivor of the Boston Marathon ...

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THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Vegas”

A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and the production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may have ha...

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THE SKED PILOT REVIEW: “Magic City”

> MAGIC CITY: Premieres Friday April 6 at 10PM on Starz – Potential DVR Alert Starz’s new MAGIC CITY is another stroll down Mad Men lane: glamorous people in impeccably detailed 1960s settings (technical...

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THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Mad Men”

MAD MEN: Sunday 10PM on AMC Fresh episodes of MAD MEN will likely still be airing more than a year from now, so all the obituaries for the series that have been appearing lately run the risk of sounding like “Gen...

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THE SKED’S PILOT + 2 REVIEW: “Magic City”

> A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may hav...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Mad Men”

There was hardly a moment in Season 6 of MAD MEN when Don Draper (Jon Hamm) seemed to feel comfortable in his own skin. Oh sure, he could gather up some venom when he had the chance to cut colleague Ted Chaough (Kevin ...

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THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Mad Men”

> WHERE WE WERE: Reeling from the news that Don Draper (Jon Hamm) had proposed to his French-Canadian secretary Megan (Jessica Pare). In other cubicles at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, Joan (Christina Hendricks), pr...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Reviews: “The Nest,” “Wendy” & “Sylvie’s Love”

THE NEST (no distrib): Sean Durkin’s first feature since 2011’s Martha Marcy May Marlene presents its emotions with such high-intensity beams that it often feels as though the film is going to slip into the...

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THE SKED @ PALEYFEST 2012: “Mad Men” (POP CULTURE APOCALYPSE MINUS 11)

> The season premiere episode of MAD MEN wasn’t screened at PaleyFest tonight. Although the show airs a week from Sunday and virtually every other PaleyFest honoree screened an upcoming episode of its series, ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Review: “Judas and the Black Messiah”

JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH (Warners/HBO Max – February 12): The title refers to the FBI informant Bill O’Neal (played here by LaKeith Stanfield) and the Illinois Black Panthers leader Fred Hampton (Daniel ...

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THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Magic City”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Something In the Air” and “Ginger and Rosa”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Downsizing” & “The Shape of Water”

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Mad Men”

TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL Day 5 Capsule Reviews: “Jackie,” “Arrival,” “Loving,” “Blue Jay,” & “Black Mirror”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Breathe” & “3 Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Vegas”

THE SKED PILOT REVIEW: “Magic City”

THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Mad Men”

THE SKED’S PILOT + 2 REVIEW: “Magic City”

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Mad Men”

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Mad Men”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Reviews: “The Nest,” “Wendy” & “Sylvie’s Love”

THE SKED @ PALEYFEST 2012: “Mad Men” (POP CULTURE APOCALYPSE MINUS 11)

SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Review: “Judas and the Black Messiah”

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